Retrospective Reflection: Debriefing, Refining, and Planning Forward
- plopezh24
- Mar 24
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 25
What’s critical to learn from lesson implementation?
As we look back upon a shared lesson design and implementation experience, we are also looking forward to the design features that can assist us with future efforts. We will never be able to go back in time and change what happened in a particular class period. Instead, we focus on understanding what to emphasize moving forward. Thus, our collaborative lesson inquiry cycles are future-oriented.
We focus on activity design and lesson architecture. By activity design, we mean how we are setting up students to talk and think, through groupings, structure, and language offered to them. By lesson architecture, we mean how activities connect to form a meaningful “storyline” for students.
Activity Design
Across multiple tasks, some generative action items include:
Tighten pacing and focus on new ideas.
Explicitly model what student should do in terms of talk.
Offer more opportunities for students to talk.
Lesson Architecture
Consider what connections they need to make across procedures, representations, and scenarios.
Identify prompts and activities that will bring to the surface prior but not prerequisite knowledge.
Offer opportunities for students to extend understanding to new scenarios, other concepts, and in other genres.